Describing telephone speech codec quality degradations by means of impairment factors

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 667-680

  Möller, Sebastian ^a   Berger, Jens ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DECODING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; TELEPHONE APPARATUS;

PERCEPTUAL QUALITY; TELEPHONE SPEECH CODEC; TRANSMISSION CHANNEL;

SPEECH CODING;

EID: 0036749348     PISSN: 00047554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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